Vest-vending machine a big hit in San Francisco

Vest-vending machine a big hit in San Francisco

It’s an odd tale of vests, venture capitalists, and San Francisco: Start with this Business Insider story in 2016 declaring that the vest had “become the most quintessentially-VC item in an investor’s wardrobe” in Silicon Valley.

Flash forward to a different BI story from last week, taking note of a vending machine in San Francisco’s airport that dispenses, yes, vests, and the social media jokes that revelation has generated. (“SFO has a down vest vending machine for visiting VCs,” wrote one; “automatic vesting” wrote another.)

And finally, a followup story at the site that the vendor is surely laughing all the way to the bank—with $10,000 in sales per month.